Last week in Paris, in the building of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industriem science museum, another meeting of the METI society, dedicated to the connection with extraterrestrial civilizations, was held. The goal of the society is to attempt to transmit interstellar messages from humanity to probable intelligent beings outside the solar system.
The collection is announced every two years for a 1-day workshop. The event was attended by many people, from serious scientists to enthusiastic ufologists, and they once again discussed the problem of why aliens, if they exist, have not yet contacted us.
The question of whether humans exist alone in the universe is still one of the greatest philosophical dilemmas of our time. Although it seems almost unbelievable that our civilization is the only one in the vast outer space, the fact remains, we do not yet see any evidence to the contrary.
There is the famous Fermi Paradox, which points to a contradiction between the probable existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the fact that we have never encountered any of them. It is also called "The Great Silence". He suggests that this is due to the fact that either there is simply no one in space, or extraterrestrial intelligent life is so rare that we will never see it.
But what if there is another explanation?
One of the versions widespread among the participants was that extraterrestrial civilizations deliberately eschew us, because otherwise people will learn too much of what it is too early for them to know, as this will directly affect the origins and purpose of our existence.
Vakovich calls this version the "zoo hypothesis" and continues:
Seminar co-chair Jean-Pierre Rospard suggests the following version.
Rospar answers the question about the general problem of the existence of extraterrestrial life as follows:
So far, the main attempts to communicate with aliens have been sending radio signals. This was first done in the 1970s with the Arecibo telescope and so far no one has answered them. But enthusiasts never stop trying.